Frodo stepped forward and stumbled over a piece of the fallen ceiling, he reached out and caught the edge of the pedestal, pulling it down.

CRASH!!!!!!

Everyone jumped and whirled around to see what had happened.

"Sorry about that, I tripped on a part of the ceiling" Frodo apoligised.

"Hey look!!" Pippin exclaimed, pointing to a doorway behind the throne.

"It's a secret passageway. To open it you must have to pull that pedestal down" Luke replied.

They all walked inside, Luke using his saber to lead them. The hallway opened up into a large room that had strange designs on it's walls.

A pedestal sat in the middle of the room, with a gold encased book on it.

"The Book of Light" Leia gasped softly.

"In the Land of Darkness" Merry replied.

"That almost sounds like a riddle" Sam told them.

"If it's like a riddle, then whatdoes 'Follow the silver directions' mean?" Anakin asked.

Gandalf opened the book and looked through it's pages. " The directions are written in silver ink" he told them.

They walked out of the secret chamber and Gandalf looked at thebook once more. "What or where is Yavin?"

"A planet out on the Rim, why?" Gandalf looked up.

"It says that we have to go Yavin 4" Luke nodded.

"Alright, Leia you stay here, I'll go and help them find that stone"

Leia looked up at them "Right just be careful, there's no telling what sort of traps Palpatine may have set up to protect that stone"

Luke nodded, and led them back up to the hallways in the Palace, and then to the landing pad where the small, unmarked frieghter sat. He started up the freighter and transferred into Hyperspace..

He should have considered himself lucky that he escaped the Dark Side's pull on his form, Palpatine, former Emperor of the Galaxy and Master of the Dark Side thought. He knew his will was strong, but it couldn't keep him from being pulled into the Dark Side for long. He knew that if he could find a strong, healthy body to possess, he could rebuild the Empire and make the whole Skywalker family pay for what they did. As he was considering who would be the best candidate for his new life, he felt a tremor in the Force. The person who caused that tremor was a strange robed person, that reminded him of a vision he had long ago. He remembered that the robed people were called Istari and that they had a strange power that was not completely of the Force called magic. Palpatine then realised that if he could manage to possess this Istari's body he could use that power along with the Force to take over both places: the Galaxy as well as the strange place of the vision. He then began to make plans as to how he was going to do this.....

Luke heard the beeping from the console in front of him, telling the others that they were approaching Yavin 4. He took the ship out of Hyperspace and approached Yavin.

"Why are there a whole bunch of X-wings flying around the planet?" Merry asked. "They are the new Jedi Knights who will protect and heal the Galaxy" Luke told him.

He then expertly landed the frieghter and they disembarked.

"What does the Book say?" Pippin asked Gandalf.

The wizard looked up and looked around

"It says there's an old temple on an island that we have to go to" Luke looked thoughtful

"We'll head out later, when it's not so hot"

The others nodded and began to wander around the grounds of the academy. Hours later, they set out for the Temple. Once they got there, Luke showed them the underwater stone path and how to cross it. Frodo looked at the walls and suddenly realised where he had seen these strange spiral like words before.

"Gandalf!" He whispered, a catch in his throat.

"This is familiar to us!" Gandalf turned and looked at Frodo, then looked at the walls, his eyes widening as he realised where he had seen this language before.

"The language of Mordor!?" He exclaimed.

"What?!" The hobbits exclaimed.

"Mordor? What's that?" Anakin asked.

"An evil land that we recently defeated in the War of the Ring" Gandalf explained. "So this ring was evil?" Luke asked.

"Not really, it was the power of the Dark Lord Sauron that had been put into it that made it evil" was the wizard's reply.

"He was the greatest leader the Sith ever came across" came a strange voice.

The spirit of Palpatine appeared, standing before the pedestal where Exar Kun's statue used to stand.

"I know that you seek the stone of the Istari. I give this advice to you: keep looking at the pages as you reach each destination. Farewell...for now"

Palpatine's spirit semmed to contract and then flew right through Gandalf. The wizard collapsed onto the floor and did not arise.

"Gandalf!!" Frodo yelled, running to his side.

Luke then touched Gandalf's forehead and picked him up.

"Let's get out of here" he told them.

Once they got out of the temple, Luke went into a trance-like state and looked at them calmly.

"One of my students is bringing an airspeeder here"

Frodo nodded and looked at Gandalf. He seemed to be overshadowed by something dark. It was almost as if something was trying to smother him. After a short time, they began to hear a distant droaning. The airspeeder came over the treetops and landed a short distance away. Jaina came running out looking worried.

"What the hell happened?!" she exclaimed, looking at the unconcious wizard. "Palpatine's spirit did something to him" Anakin told her.

Jaina spoke some choice curses and helped Luke carry Gandalf into the speeder. The others climbed inside and Jaina expertly flew the speeder back to the Great Temple. Once there, Luke carried Gandalf to a spare bedroom and told the others to rest for the trip back to Courscant. The next day, Gandalf seemed a little more watchful, but was fine. He and Luke argued extensively over the fact that Gandalf wanted to look for the stone, while Luke wanted to go back to Courscant to make sure no other lasting damage had been caused by Palpatine's spirit. Eventually Luke won the arguement and went to prep up the frieghter. As they were walking towards the ship (nicknamed the 'Starlight') Frodo glanced at Gandalf and noticed for the briefest moment a flicker of yellow in his eyes.